According to the guys at
www.osx86.classicbeta.com, some intrepid individuals have been able to get OS X running on generic hardware. There is a full explaination and some details on the site.
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I always despise the reports about "$xxxx lost due to piracy". The fact is, they have lost very little money because the vast majority of people who "pirated" the work would never have paid for it at the asking price. Yes, some, but a small percentage. Then again, maybe it *USED* to be that way, thinking of packages like MS Office, AutoCAD, etc... But now people will go out of their way to pirate a $5 shareware app. I guess it has come down to pure unwillingness to fairly compensate those for their work, even if it's reasonable. I wouldn't personally pay several hundred dollars for MS Office, so even if I were to obtain a copy for a one-time project, it's unfair to say that MS has lost money because of that. They wouldn't have ever gotten that money from me, and if I didn't find a copy to use online, I would have found someone with a copy and simply borrowed their computer long enough to do the work. No money lost, unless MS wants to enforce a license agreement to not only a computer, but also a specific user on that computer. Hmmmm, they'd probably love that.
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For all you folks talking about stealing and copying, I have a question for you:
You buy an avocado at the store. You eat it, and plant the pit in a pot on your balcony. Is that an act of theft?
You eventually end up with another avocado, and no store was reimbursed for it. By the "look at the endpoints" argument, it doesn't matter how you got it: you now have an item of value, you didn't have it before, and nobody who sells that item got paid for it.
Just because the results sorta mimic theft doesn't mean that theft has taken place, or that someone did something wrong.
And for that matter, let's stop saying "theft." We're talking about copyright infringement, which is illegal but not "theft," any more than tresspassing is "theft" or speeding is "theft." These are completely different offenses. You can make some monetary argument that speeding costs us money, or that I could have made money by selling you a license to cross my property, which you have negated by tresspassing. But unless you can take me to court for theft, it isn't theft. Converting harm into dollar amounts doesn't turn an act into stealing.
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